The United Stations has suspended aid operations to Gaza after an Israeli tank fired on a UN relief vehicle, killing at least one person and wounding two others. This despite the UN operating in an agreed window for relief and supplying Israel with the map co-ordinates of its personnnel. There are a number of conclusions that can be drawn from this. One is that Israeli forces don't give a toss about the UN and are prepared to fire on anyone that suits them. Two, the aforementioned Israeli forces, full of terrified reservists who would much rather be somewhere else, are inclined to fire first and think later. Three, it's the fog of war. In reality, as ever, it's probably a bit of all three but there's an understandable feeling abroad that Israel has cast aside whatever scruples it has left and is just trying to wreak as much havoc as it can on Hamas in Gaza (the elected government, by the way) and damn the consequences. Because, thanks to the support of the United States and, in this case, Britain and France who are frightened to upset the Americans, it can. But Israel is behaving like a military and political hooligan, confident that its old allies will turn a blind eye to the slaughter of nearly a thousand people in Gaza. America, France and Britain may come together tonight to agree to an Arab UN resolution calling for an immediate ceasefire. Not before time.